• DocumentCode
    1255439
  • Title

    Vertical cavity lasers with tapered oxide apertures for low scattering loss

  • Author

    Hegblom, E.R. ; Thibeault, Brian J. ; Naone, R.L. ; Coldren, Larry A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA
  • Volume
    33
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    5/8/1997 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    869
  • Lastpage
    871
  • Abstract
    The authors have fabricated vertical cavity lasers with tapered oxide apertures. The taper of the oxide aperture creates a more lens-like element within the cavity which, as predicted from theory, almost eliminates scattering losses in small devices with a 2 μm diameter opening
  • Keywords
    laser cavity resonators; optical losses; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; scattering loss; tapered oxide aperture; vertical cavity lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19970610
  • Filename
    592622